Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prose and mood, no reminiscences published in 1939 are likely to surpass the idyllic felicity of Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century and Seven More Years (Viking, $2.75), a nostalgic account of his first 21 years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep...
Defining the middle class as the white collar and professional group from small salaried workers up through the more prosperous business and professional men, Hicks, center of a disturbance last fall on account of his Communistic tendencies, traced the history of the bourgeoisie through the depression...
...mortified his flesh with scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse...
...guilty of conduct . . . inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." This is the Exchange's worst condemnation, the same it applied to Richard Whitney. In Joseph Sisto's case there was apparently no public-loss: he did only a limited brokerage business, carried no margin accounts, and was mainly interested in underwriting. The Exchange charged him with juggling J. A. Sisto & Co.'s books to make his personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging for Sisto Financial Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares...
...right, Geer, pack up. You're coming with me," snapped the Dean of the University police from under his Tyrolean hat, the moment he arrived on the scene. "Don't you know you shouldn't be hero?" he added. According to earwitnesses, Geer immediately lost the beautiful English account which had graced his sales talk. "I didn't know that at all," he protested...